St. Gangolf (Munchenlohra)
The St. Gangolf Basilica in Münchenlohra ( Großlohra community , Nordhausen district ) is a Romanesque monastery church in northern Thuringia .
history
The Lohra Monastery was founded around 1170 by the Counts of Lohra , whose seat was in the nearby Lohra Castle , and named after St. Named Gangolf . It housed Benedictine women and Augustinian choir women . The Romanesque monastery church was also built around 1170 . After the Reformation, the monastery was secularized in 1546, which is why the grounds and the church slowly fell into disrepair. In 1590, the von Gladebeck family from Northeim bought the former monastery. During this time, most of the outbuildings were demolished, only the church was initially preserved and renovated in 1666 by Bodo von Gladebeck (1620–1681). After the von Gladebeck family died out in 1701, the monastery property became a state domain and from 1815 belonged to the Prussian state. In 1732 one tower of the church was demolished, a little later the second and the west apse, the aisles and the side apses. In the remaining part, the main nave with its cross arms, a village church was set up for Münchenlohra. Sheds and barns were built on the outside.
In 1845 the Prussian general curator Ferdinand von Quast traveled to Münchenlohra and suggested that the church be rebuilt as it existed before the demolition. Architect Carl Schäfer did this from 1882 to 1885. The reconstruction took place from the point of view of keeping as closely as possible to the historical original. From 1951 to 1957 the church was again extensively renovated. The restoration brought the beauty of the building back to bear. A particular problem was the setting of the foundation on the karst subsoil. This was only solved in 1994 by attaching steel anchors and re-foundation of the church.
Furnishing
Since the reconstruction, St. Gangolf is again a three-aisled basilica on a cross plan with a double-towered westwork . The choir and the two transept arms close with apses . There is a spacious column crypt under the westwork .
The Gothic altar of Mary is located in the main apse of the church. It was created between 1510 and 1515 and originally comes from the no longer existing church in Karritz in the Altmark and came to Münchenlohra in 1957. Before it was set up in the Stendal Cathedral .
The font dates from the 15th century.
organ
The organ was built in 1853 and comes from the workshop of the organ builder Gottlieb Knauf from Bleicherode .
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Bells
Nothing is left of the bells from the heyday of the monastery. Currently (as of July 2018) the church in the west building between the towers has two bells: The small bell with the strike tone b was cast by Peter Schilling in Apolda in 1894 . The big bell with the chime g bears the name Maria and comes from the destroyed church of Groß Kayna . It was cast in 1316 and weighs around 700 kg; it has been ringing in Münchenlohra since 1950.
use
At the end of 2009, the parish of Großlohra-Friedrichsrode was able to acquire the former monastery grounds around the basilica and thus the two buildings there. The idea of revitalizing the monastery grounds and restoring the basilica was followed by the establishment of the Munich-Lohra Monastery Association. Like-minded people who want to work on the project together with the parish have since met for monastery building days. Their aim is to develop the site into a center of Christian life and a cultural attraction.
At Easter 2010, the worshipers met for the first time for breakfast in the newly created monastery room. The Friends' Association follows a three-step plan that was developed by Eva Westphal, a former student at the Weimar Bauhaus University. The plan is to expand the former inspector's house and today's guest house so that it offers the community additional space. Stage two should be to run a pilgrims' hostel. The third stage is the expansion of the coach house.
The parish celebrates Vespers on some Saturdays according to the old church rite . Concerts in the warm season and festive services on Easter Vigil, Ascension Day and Reformation Day take place regularly.
literature
- Evangelical Parish Office Niedergebra: Basilica St. Gangolf Münchenlohra ; Parish leaflet on the history of the church
- Schäfer: Church in Munchenlohra . In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung . Vol. 6 (1886), No. 7, urn : nbn: de: kobv: 109-opus-21556 , pp. 61-64. (Six illustrations)
- Wolfram Siegel: The holy Gangolf in Münchenlohra at the Hainleite: basilica, monastery and Carolingian prehistory . Lukas, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-936872-50-3 .
- Thomas Müller: The churches in the southern Harz. with photographs by Christoph Keil and others. Nordhausen 2017, pp. 142f.
Web links
- Münchenlohra Abbey - Homepage of the Association for the Promotion of the Basilica
- Regina Englert: The ultimate dream - the former monastery Münchenlohra is to become a center of Christian life. Faith and Home , April 3, 2011, p. 6. Accessed July 5, 2018 .
- Four-page information sheet about the basilica
Individual evidence
- ^ Herbert von Hintzenstern: Built as if for eternity - monasteries in Thuringia - cultural artefacts from ancient times. Verlagshaus Thuringia, 1996, ISBN 3-89683-104-6 , p. 31
- ↑ http://www.muenchenlohra.de/pdf/heft.pdf - accessed on July 5, 2018
- ↑ Regina Englert: The ultimate dream - The former monastery Münchenlohra is to become a center of Christian life. Faith and Home , April 3, 2011, p. 6. Accessed July 5, 2018 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 16.8 ″ N , 10 ° 39 ′ 40.2 ″ E